I don't do that. Octane understands iRay well enough it seems. I just start working on Octane Materials right away.

That hasn't been my experience. But to each their own!

In most cases, I lose as much or more time to material tweaking as I save from Octanes speed. For me, Iray isn't going anywhere until Octane offers MDL reading / conversion that has visual fidelity with what Iray produces. I'd rather start an Iray render and walk away knowing the Iray render is ...

We're still mapping out the timeline for the MDL work. Once that is done, we'll be able to finalize when it's going into Octane.

Otoy has been saying this for years. I hope we get a concrete update at some point in 2018.

Sorry, I meant Iray shaders (so I can customize). AFAIK there are no Octane shaders for Daz other than what's in the database.

Oh, and these skin shaders: http://redspec-sss.com/all_tailored.html

Yep. That's why I've bought a metric ton of shaders. That way, if I don't like the one that came in the scene, I can almost always find a better one in my library.

The skin can come out looking pretty good if you purchase the textures from the Octane vendors. However, the optional add-ons (wet skin, etc) will probably not work without extensive modification. Same with the scenes. They need a lot of work to convert. I stopped using Octane because any speed gain ...

I'm in the same boat as you, linvanchene. I'm a licensed customer who doesn't ever use Octane anymore because the conversion from MDL to Octane is simply too onerous. Any reduction in render times due to better production capabilities is annihilated with having to tweak / recreate shaders.

Hi Paul,

I have been having some major issues with my PC for a while now and it all started after a Windows 10 Update and a Nvidia Driver Update
Since then been having heaps of BSOD mainly while using DAZ with Iray. Been sending them log files but nothing really showing up. Octane was running 90 ...

Oooh, Adaptive Sampling. Thanks, Paul!

Thanks, Paul. That worked. What does Ray Epsilon do, anyway?